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38 Who Saw Hollander Analysis

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Are there any acceptable reasons for letting someone die in front of your eyes? In the article “The Murder They Heard” written by Stanley Milgram and Paul Hollander and first appearing in The Nation, Milgram and Hollander explored the reasons for the neighbors’ failure to help, their lack of civic sense and their actions toward Catherine Genovese’s murder, in part, they are responding to the hype created around Martin Gansberg’s “38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police.” Milgram and Hollander argued that the witnesses were not at fault in that murder and instead, they blamed the city life, society norms, law, and the situational pressure. Even though Milgram and Hollander stated some acceptable reasons to think that the witnesses were not guilty, I still find the witnesses’ responsible for the loss of Genovese’s life. According to Milgram and …show more content…

They gave reasons showing that the 38 witnesses were not responsible for Genovese’s death and it was okay for them to not call the police for help. They presented some of the reasons like the city life, society norms, law, and the situational pressure. They also explained them in favor of the witnesses. First of all, they talked about the personal relationships that are inferior in the city. People in the city keep distance between themselves because they want to be free (902). This was considered a big reason for the witnesses to not call the police or help her as they didn’t know Genovese or wasn’t close to her. Moreover, Milgram and Hollander presented society rules as an another explanation for the witnesses to not help Genovese. The witnesses were following the society rules by not taking the law into their own hands (904). They

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